I am a Forward Deployed Engineer at Avatar Investments, helping Italian enterprises leverage AI and Palantir to transform their business. My core conviction is that no AI system can truly perform without well-structured, reliable data at its foundation — which is why data architecture sits at the heart of everything I do.
Over the years, I have designed and scaled modern data platforms on Google Cloud Platform, Databricks and Snowflake (on both Azure and AWS). Until end of 2025, I channeled this expertise through my personal big data & cloud consultancy COalesCE, helping companies drive data modernization and AI enablement.
🥾 I have also had the unique challenge of managing a shoe factory, Zenkis in Kyiv, Ukraine (2020–2022), where I implemented 🏭 Lean Manufacturing principles (and I could also learn some 🪆 Russian).
I love anything where data can provide a competitive edge or unlock hidden insights:
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🃏 Poker (mainly Texas Hold'em, Omaha and 5-Card Draw)
Poker is a hobby I genuinely love, though I play very sporadically: far from being a reg. That said, I have studied the game seriously since the Full Tilt Poker era, and I started playing on PokerStars.it in 2011, the year it launched in Italy. The volume is nowhere near impressive, but below are my lifetime results on the platform:
This chart is updated on demand via a manually triggered GitHub Action running on a self-hosted runner on my local machine — GitHub-hosted runners can't be used here, as SharkScope enforces a free tier limit of 5 searches per day and their datacenter IPs get blocked.